data provided by the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to corroborate evidence supporting the Fetal …We report evidence of long-term adverse health impacts of in utero exposure to malnutrition based on survivors in their … 50s who were born during the China Famine that occurred in the years 1959-1961. We take advantage of recently available …

education's impact. These suggest that CSLs have improved national health significantly in China and the findings help to …Using a national representative sample in China from three largest on-going surveys, this study examines the effects of … education on health among working-age population and explores the potential mechanisms. Using the exogenous variation in …

Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has begun a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Along … parents left behind in the rural area. The impact of migration of the adult children on the health of their left … health care and nutrition; on the other hand, the migration necessarily reduces the amount of time the children have to take …

There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its … opportunity to study such effects. Utilizing China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) baseline survey 2011 … vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative immobility of older residents, provides a rare …

The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status … alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment in which subjects … China is a boost in social status (vice-ministerial level) with negligible economic impact (US$30 monthly before 2009 …

Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …

This paper estimates the causal effect of income on health outcomes of the elderly and investigates underlying … mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch of China's New Rural Pension scheme (NRPS). Using this policy … measures of physical health, cognitive function, and psychological well-being of the rural elderly, and also reduced mortality …

migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes …. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during …

Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we investigate the causal relation between housing … conditions (both internal and external) and health among urban adults aged 18+. We find that housing improvement reduces the … probability of bad self-reported health by 3.7 percent, with more pronounced impacts among females, older adults, those with lower …

consequences for decision-making in old age. Using data from China, we examine how a new retirement program affects cognitive …